Conjuring
Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical
texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines.
Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on
the "Sworn Book of Honorius," Michael Camille on the Ars Notoria,
John B. Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Nicholas Watson
on the McMaster text, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. The
work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis,
and an overview of late medieval English ritual manuscripts by Frank
Klaassen. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers
interested in ritual magic in the later middle ages.
Claire
Fanger is a visiting faculty member at the University of
Western Ontario. She is the co-editor of The Latin Verses in the
'Confessio Amantis' (Colleagues Press, 1991).
